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31 Oct 2023

Manuel Turizo Explains the Stories Behind the Photo | Billboard

Manuel Turizo explains the stories behind these photos backstage at Billboard’s Latin Music Week 2023.

Manuel Turizo

Hey, what’s up my people, I am Manuel Turizo.

Manuel Turizo

And I’ll take you ‘Behind the Photo’ with Billboard.

Manuel Turizo

This is the first one. This was two or three months ago, something like that. I was in Amsterdam, we were on tour and we went for a walk one day, to get to know the place. We were joking about something that someone on the team said. Julian and I were cracking up, so we took a photo.

Manuel Turizo

The pink hair little Beéle. This was on the backstage of Nuestra Tierra Awards in Bogotá. We were having some drinks and we started fooling around, pretending we were at the gym and I was like, OK, let’s do it to see who could do more push-ups. We were just fooling around — things that happen after a couple of drinks.

Manuel Turizo

This one was here in Miami, I really like Juan Luis Guerra’s music and since he was playing here, we went to the concert. When it was over, we got to meet him. I couldn’t miss the photo with someone who is a legend in Latin Music, Juan Luis Guerra, and that was the story behind the photo.

30 Oct 2023

The Rolling Stones Are First Act With Billboard 200 Top 10 Albums Each Decade Since the 1960s

The Rolling Stones become the first act with newly-charted top 10 titles on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and now the ‘20s. The band’s new studio album, Hackney Diamonds, debuts at No. 3 on the chart dated Nov. 4. It’s the group’s first album of original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang (which also debuted, and peaked, at No. 3).

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The new Nov. 4-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 31.

Additionally, The Rolling Stones extend its record for the most top 10 albums, overall, among all artists in the Billboard 200’s history, which dates back to March 1956 (when the tally began publishing on a regular, weekly basis), as Hackney Diamonds marks the act’s 38th top 10-charting set. Barbra Streisand has the second-most, with 34, while The Beatles and Frank Sinatra are tied with the third-most, each with 32.

Hackney Diamonds is The Rolling Stones’ first album since the death of their drummer, Charlie Watts, in 2021, which left the group a trio comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood. Before his passing, Watts worked on the new project, and he appears on two of the album’s songs (“Mess It Up” and “Live by the Sword”). Former bandmember Bill Wyman also appears on “Sword,” playing bass guitar. The 12-song album also features contributions from Elton John, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, among others.

The Rolling Stones claimed their first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 with 12 x 5, which reached the top 10 dated Dec. 12, 1964 (climbing 11-3, its peak position). The Stones logged 13 top 10 albums in the 1960s (12 x 5; The Rolling Stones, Now!; Out of Our Heads; December’s Children [And Everybody’s]; Big Hits [High Tide and Green Grass]; Aftermath; Got Live If You Want It!; Between the Buttons; Flowers; Their Satanic Majesties Request; Beggars Banquet; Through the Past, Darkly [Big Hits Vol. 2] and Let It Bleed), 12 in the ‘70s (‘Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!,’ Sticky Fingers, Hot Rocks 1964-1971, Exile on Main St., More Hot Rocks [Big Hits & Fazed Cookies], Goats Head Soup, It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll, Made in the Shade, Metamorphosis, Black and Blue, Love You Live and Some Girls), six in the ‘80s (Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, ‘Still Life’ [American Concert 1981], Undercover, Dirty Work and Steel Wheels), three in the ‘90s (Voodoo Lounge, Stripped and Bridges to Babylon), two in the 2000s (Forty Licks and A Bigger Bang), one in the ‘10s (Blue & Lonesome) and now one, so far, in the ‘20s (Hackney Diamonds).

Of those 38 top 10s, nine have reached No. 1: Out of Our Heads, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Goats Head Soup, It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll, Black and Blue, Some Girls, Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You.

Notably, one other act has newly-charted Billboard 200 top 10s in each decade from the ‘60s through the ‘10s: Barbra Streisand, who would match The Rolling Stones’ new achievement with a new top 10 of her own this decade.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

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30 Oct 2023

Here Are Five Things You Didn’t Know About PinkPantheress | Billboard

PinkPantheress reveals five things you didn’t know about her!

PinkPantheress:

Hi, I’m PinkPantheress and this is five things that you do not know about me.

Number one, I’m deathly afraid of planes. And by that, I mean sometimes when I mid-flight, I consider finding a reason to make the plane do an emergency stop. But I realized that if I do that I’ll have a criminal investigation against me so I don’t end up doing it but I always have the thought.

I’m a big gamer. I like playing video games. I’m actually weirdly good at Fortnite. I’m not proud of it, but I play for fun and then I accidentally got good.

Number three, I have a very good nose, i.e., I can smell things from super far. And I can smell things and identify them as soon as I smell them. I kind of feel like the rat for ‘Ratatouille’ sometimes.

Number four, I am half Kenyan, I always feel like I need to let people know where I’m from because I’m super proud of my ancestry and my heritage, specifically Mombasa so rep East Africa.

Number five is that I have two singing voices. If you listen to my music, you can hear that the voice I use is super light and airy and quite high pitched but my other singing voice which is the one that I grew up with when I was singing other styles of music is actually a lot deeper. A little bit more soulful and a bit more heavy so double-sided. I’ve got layers to me.

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30 Oct 2023

Edgar Barrera Plays This or That | Billboard

Edgar Barrera plays This or That with Billboard backstage at Billboard’s Latin Music Week 2023.

Edgar Barrera:
Hi, I am Edgar Barrera and we are going to play This or That with Billboard.

[Horchata or agua fresca?]

Agua Fresca.

[Dance bachata or merengue?]

Bachata. The Bachata.

[Tacos al pastor or tacos de pollo?]

Al Pastor Tacos.

[Baseball or soccer?]

Soccer.

[Spicy food or not spicy?]

Spicy, I always have spicy.

[Empanadas or tamales?]

Tamales.

Interviewer:
What type?

Edgar Barrera:
Chicken Tamales.

[Salsa Verde or Salsa Roja?]

Salsa Verde.

[Mariachis or vallenatos?]

Mariachis.

[Tequila or mezcal?]

Tequila, always.

Interviewer:
What brand do you like?

Edgar Barrera:
Of Tequila? All of them give you the same effect, so whichever. Anyone that stuns.

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30 Oct 2023

SZA Spends Record-Extending 50th Week at No. 1 on R&B Songwriters Chart

SZA adds a record-furthering 50th week at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Songwriters chart (dated Oct. 28), thanks to her song “Snooze” and Drake’s “Slime You Out,” on which she’s featured.

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The tracks rank at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, on the latest Hot R&B Songs chart. SZA co-wrote “Snooze” with Babyface, BLK Beats, Leon G. Thomas III and Khristopher van Riddick-Tynes. She’s also a co-writer on “Slime You Out,” with Drake, 40, BNYX, Noel Cadastre, Grant Lapointe, Chris Powell and Dalton Tennant.

A week earlier, SZA broke the record for the most weeks notched at No. 1 on R&B Songwriters, as her 49th frame at the summit lifted her past The Weeknd, with 48. Along the way over her record run, her smash “Kill Bill” spent 30 weeks at No. 1 on Hot R&B Songs.

Across Billboard’s 13 weekly songwriter charts, SZA joins a select number of talents who have reached the milestone of 50-or-more weeks at No. 1. Here’s a recap.

Weeks Spent at No. 1, Chart Name, Artist:
121, Gospel Songwriters, Kirk Franklin
96, Latin Songwriters, Bad Bunny
62, Dance/Electronic Songwriters, f a l l e n
62, Dance/Electronic Songwriters, SAINt JHN
57, Alternative Songwriters, Dave Bayley
56, Rock & Alternative Songwriters, Zach Bryan
56, Rock Songwriters, Zach Bryan
53, Dance/Electronic Songwriters, Elton John
53, Dance/Electronic Songwriters, Bernie Taupin
50, Rock & Alternative Songwriters, Dave Bayley
50, R&B Songwriters, SZA

In March, Kirk Franklin became the first and, to date, only creative to have led a songwriters survey for 100 weeks.

Spending 50 weeks atop one of Billboard’s 13 producers charts is even more rare. Only five producers have achieved the feat: Joey Moi, with 122 weeks spent at No. 1 on Country Producers; Tainy (119, Latin Producers); Jonathan Lindsey Smith (84, Christian Producers); Kanye West (59, Gospel Producers); and Jeff Pardo (54, Christian Producers).

Billboard launched the Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts, as well as genre-specific rankings for country, rock & alternative, R&B/hip-hop, R&B, rap, Latin, Christian, gospel and dance/electronic, in June 2019, while alternative and hard rock joined in 2020, along with seasonal holiday rankings in 2022. The charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Billboard Hot 100. The genre-based songwriter and producer charts follow the same methodology based on corresponding “Hot”-named genre charts. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings).

The full Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts and full genre rankings can be found on Billboard.com.

30 Oct 2023

Cher’s ‘Christmas’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums Chart

Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart returns for the 2023 holiday season, with Cher’s Christmas album debuting atop the tally (dated Nov. 4). It’s the pop superstar’s first holiday collection. The 13-song set has a blend of classic tunes and newly written tracks, and boasts a starry lineup of guests in Michael Bublé, Cyndi Lauper, Darlene Love, Tyga and Stevie Wonder.

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The new Nov. 4-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 31.

The Top Holiday Albums chart will continue to be published on a weekly basis through early January of 2024, when it will dash away until the next holiday season. (The chart generally returns to Billboard’s weekly chart menu every October.)

The Top Holiday Albums chart ranks the 50 most popular seasonal albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each units equals one album sales, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Cher’s Christmas earned 21,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 26, according to Luminate. Of that sum, album sales comprised 20,000, SEA units comprised a little under 1,000 and TEA units comprised the remaining negligible sum. The album was available to purchase as a digital download album and in four different CD variants (each with alternative cover art). A vinyl LP, on ruby red-colored vinyl, is scheduled for release on Nov. 17.

Cher also makes waves on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, where Christmas bows at No. 32, marking her 14th solo top 40-charting album on the tally. Further, she becomes only the second woman, and third soloist, with a new top 40-charting albums in the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, 2000s, ’10s and ‘20s. The only other acts to have achieved this feat are Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and The Rolling Stones.

The top 10 of the Nov. 4-dated Top Holiday Albums chart is dotted with familiar favorites, as the soundtrack to the Halloween-meets-Christmas film Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is No. 2, Pentatonix’s new The Greatest Christmas Hits debuts at No. 3, Bublé’s Christmas is No. 4 and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s TV soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas is No. 5. The top 10 is rounded out by *NSYNC’s Home for Christmas (No. 6), Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas (No. 7), Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Christmas (No. 8), Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song (No. 9) and Bing Crosby’s Christmas Classics (No. 10).

Among the artists that have new holiday albums dropping later this holiday season (or have recently released a new holiday set in the past month or so): Michael Bolton, Brandy, Jim Brickman, Ally Brooke, Bing Crosby, Jessie James Decker, Seth MacFarlane and Liz Gillies, Samara Joy, Johnny Mathis, My Morning Jacket, Oak Ridge Boys, Jon Pardi, Gregory Porter, Matt Rogers, Michael W. Smith, Straight No Chaser and The Tenors.

29 Oct 2023

Manuel Turizo Plays Fishing for Answers | Billboard

Manuel Turizo plays Fishing for Answers with Billboard backstage at Billboard’s Latin Music Week 2023.

Manuel Turizo

Hey, my people, I’m Manuel Turizo and I’ll be Fishing for Answers with Billboard.

Manuel Turizo

Do I prefer recording or touring?

Manuel Turizo

I don’t know; I feel that someday in my life, maybe as years go by, I’ll get tired of touring and I won’t want to tour as frequently, but recording, well, I want to do that all my life.

Manuel Turizo

Have you ever met someone who left you starstruck? Who was it?

Manuel Turizo

Yes, I feel that, I don’t know…it’s like every time I meet someone I admire or respect a lot. You get a bit shocked. Yes, of course it makes you a little nervous.

Manuel Turizo

What was your most embarrassing moment onstage?

Manuel Turizo

Once, it was like a 360-degree stage with another one above it, I was singing and…I went up and with the foot I had up, I slipped and fell backward on stage, and everyone in the stadium where we were performing. Everyone was laughing their asses off even I couldn’t stop laughing, but I think that’s the only one.

Manuel Turizo

Who would I love to collaborate with on my next album?

Manuel Turizo

I don’t know many, with Yandel again.

Manuel Turizo

Who is my style icon and why?

Manuel Turizo

I don’t know; I really liked what Virgil Abloh did in the last years before he died.

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28 Oct 2023

Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ Off to Big Start After First Day of Release

Taylor Swift’s fourth re-recorded album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), sold over 250,000 copies in the U.S. on its first day of release, Oct. 27, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. After just one day, the album has the third-largest sales week of 2023; the only bigger weeks were registered by Swift’s own Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), with 507,000 in its opening week, and Travis Scott’s Utopia, with 252,000 in its first week.

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The sales of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday, Nov. 2. The album’s final first-week sales number is expected to be announced on Sunday, Nov. 5, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 11). If 1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 13th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women.

All 12 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless, her second studio album, through 2023’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

In addition, the songs on 1989 (Taylor’s Version) collectively generated over 110 million on-demand official audio streams on the set’s release day in the U.S., according to initial reports to Luminate.

Further news of initial sales, streaming and track-equivalent activity for the album, as provided by Luminate, will be reported in the coming days.

The original 1989 album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 15, 2014, and spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. It is tied with Swift’s first No. 1, Fearless, for her most weeks at No. 1 with a single album. The 1989 album boasts three songs that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the most No. 1s generated from any Swift album. She sent the tracks “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space” and “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, to No. 1 in 2014-15.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) includes re-recordings of the original 1989 album’s standard 13 songs plus the three tracks on its deluxe edition. The new 1989 (Taylor’s Version) boasts five additional previously unreleased “From the Vault” songs, bringing the total number of songs on the standard version of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) to 21.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is available to purchase in 15 collectible physical formats: five color vinyl variants, eight CD editions and two cassette editions. Of the five vinyl variants, Target carries a color variant that includes one bonus track (“Sweeter Than Fiction”). The album is also available to buy in two digital download editions: a standard 21-song version and a deluxe 22-song version (which adds a re-recorded version of the album’s “Bad Blood,” featuring Lamar).

28 Oct 2023

Feid Explains the Stories Behind the Photo | Billboard

Feid explains the stories behind these photos backstage at Billboard’s Latin Music Week 2023.

Feid

Hello love, I’m Feid and I’m gonna to take you Behind the Photo with Billboard!

Feid

First photo. This photo was the last one was we took in the studio when we finished “Felix Cumpleaños Ferxxo.”

Feid

Before our album got pirated we were having some drinks, we were having a good time. Listening to the album from start to finish, joking around and having fun. I’m the kind of person who takes a lot of photos of the moment of the space, of everything. My photo roll is full. This was a selfie I didn’t want to forget, nor that moment, as we put a lot of love into that project. Considering I started making that album with a broken foot. So it was lovely, and later on walking, listening to it and everything.

Feid

Well the second photo is this…what a gem, look! Ferxxo wearing Ferxxo’s glasses. Mr.Yankee wearing Ferxxo’s glasses and, Don Yandel wearing Ferxxo’s glasses. That was a dream come true for me because, I believe I’ve said it in many interviews, and many people know that one of my influences and someone who has shaped my life as a reggaeton artist has been Yankee. And I used to make Photoshop edits with Yandel when I was in school. It was like we were a duo, so a speak. So, recording the remix of “Yandel 150” with Yankee, and of course, I brought Ferxxo’s glasses to have a good time.

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27 Oct 2023

Jesús Ortíz Paz, Feid, Nicky Jam, Sebastián Yatra & More Share What They’re Listening To | Billboard

Jesús Ortíz Paz, Feid, Nicky Jam, Sebastián Yatra and more Latin stars tell Billboard what music is currently stuck in their heads backstage at Billboard’s Latin Music Week 2023.

Manuel Turizo:
Sech’s “Tus Labios.” I have it to repeat. I love that song.

GALE:
Right now, I’m all about Olivia Rodrigo’s album. It’s a spectacular album. I love the music and the lyrics. I think the ballad “Logical” is … spectacular, incredible!

Arcángel:
The song is because my kids listen to it a lot. [Sings “Diamonds”] It’s a trap song by Mora & Dei V.

Feid:
Well, from my latest album, I love the one called “Bubalu,” which is with Rema. I think I’ve never been able to write such a … such a catchy song that stays with you all the time.

Yng Lvcas:
That I can’t get rid of right now would be Yng Lvcas’ “Perdonémonos.”

Jesús Ortíz Paz:
The song I have on repeat are all the songs on my album. I can’t stop thinking about them … they’re just they’re in my head.

Sebastián Yatra:
Well, the song I mentioned, “Energía Bacana,” I can’t get it out of my head.

Kany García:
It’s a song by Maria Becerra with Enrique Iglesias [sings “Así Es La Vida]. I think it’s a super hit song, I love it, so it’s great that I can tell her that today.

Carin León:
The song I have stuck in my head is “Según Quién” with Maluma, but besides having to sing it, obviously it’s very catchy and sometimes I wake up and say, “D–n, not again!”

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